Commentary

CMS Could Cut Funding for Children’s Hospitals Performing Sex Change Interventions on Minors

  • By Do No Harm Staff
  • July 2, 2025

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is considering cutting off funding for children’s hospitals that provide sex change interventions to minors, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week.

The report comes on the heels of a CMS letter warning several children’s hospitals that child sex change interventions “lack reliable evidence of benefits.” 

The letter gave the hospitals a 30-day deadline beginning May 28 to provide information and data related to their sex change services.

The hospitals include Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Boston Children’s Hospital, Children’s National Hospital, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Children’s Hospital Colorado, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, the WSJ reported.

These hospitals are ALL on Do No Harm’s “Dirty Dozen” list of the most prolific providers of child sex change interventions.

This list was created as part of Do No Harm’s Stop the Harm Database, a first-of-its-kind national database of hospitals and medical facilities administering irreversible sex change interventions on children in the United States.

Do No Harm has worked to shed light on these hospitals’ practices, profiling them and their gender activism. For instance, Do No Harm launched a digital campaign targeting the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, highlighting the hospital’s devotion to gender ideology.

This is welcome scrutiny from CMS: Do No Harm supports efforts to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not used to support dangerous and experimental procedures to which children cannot consent.

The Do No Harm in Medicaid Act, sponsored by Representative Dan Crenshaw and endorsed by Do No Harm, would codify prohibitions on Medicaid funding for child sex change interventions.

Several of the hospitals have suspended their sex change services in the wake of pressure from the Trump administration; Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, citing the CMS letter, announced last month it would no longer provide so-called “gender-affirming care” to children.